Trump is trying to make some crucial changes but they will come to naught unless:1. He reverses course and doesn’t import infinity Indian H1Bs, increases by at least 10x deportations and manages to end birthright citizenship. As is, our replacements will simply steal a country with a more sound economy thanks to Trump.2. The Trump administration becomes more than the Trump show and he can pick someone Israel doesn’t like. So far his domestic cabinet is busy fighting anti Semitism and not much else. AG Blondi seems to be auditioning for a host job on Fox with over 40 appearances. RFK Jr has turned anti Semitism into our biggest health crisis.3. They quit playing nice and find a way to play hardball with the judges. Only the Supreme Court is even in the constitution if I remember right.4. All of these DOGE findings are reflected in budgets. That is something none of the GOP outside of Massie want. I don’t think he is arguing over pennies. He sees that the GOP talks tough on government spending but always increase it.

Thomas Massie is the lone GOP congressman who doesn’t take AIPAC money. This should at least merit mention on a dissident website! Trump singling Massie out with such hostility and threatening to work against his re-election should be considered in light of that fact. Z-Man surely knows this, so I’m unsure why he’s uncritically amplifyng Trump in this instance, and calling Massie playground names like “dickhead.” I agree with Z-Man that libertarianism is a bad philosophy but that’s a far bigger topic.

Trump should have done this stuff in his first term, when there was still some runway left. The fact that rat-faced Chuckie Schumer changed his tune so quickly tells that me as a peasant I can expect to get fucked by this CR. Even though I agree with what Trump is trying to do in principle, it seems way too late to avoid the iceberg. Let’s just hope that the ideas being pushed don’t get tarred along with Trump when the economy blows up late 25/early 26.

I don’t think the tariffs will apply to software. It is astonishing how quickly huge numbers of software jobs are in places everywhere but America. You can go day-to-day and see entire listings move to Hyderabad or Sofia. Uber seems to be entirely an off-shore development shop now.I am not sure how they will make foreign labor expensive in the software industry – one of the few that provides upper middle class jobs.My hope in the bigger picture is that the government’s radical downsizing will provide the labor needed for all of the jobs that Americans didn’t have to do because they were paid to deconstruct our country and our civilization. I also hope that the student loan racket that has seen our universities colonized by aliens in the student body and the faculty also get shut down. I don’t think the tech oligarchs are keen on that one. Finally, I want to see the build a massive castle of young, chad white men who are enlisted to deport the 50 million people that the regime now admits are in our country illegally.I am sure we are all sick and tired of America just leaving everyone on their own in a mad scramble and opening us up for foreign predation. It is worse. Everyone but Americans (whites) are dealt subsidies, sinecures, projects, programs … …The other castle they better build is a viable direct skill to work pipeline that prioritizes the Historic American Nation. All these companies now have that big flag in the factory and say Made In America, but they better start investing in making their labor pool here in America out of existing Americans. There are plenty of us to do the work. The system is running out of time to bring Americans back into the fold and lend a helping hand. The Age of The Smothering Mother + The Age Of The Hand Tying Decapitating Oligarchs has been devastating. The Age of The Vengeful Son is upon us all if they do not do something for someone besides themselves.America the free-for-all office park and shopping mall has radicalized its own people because of its disgusting and severe abuses. One way or the other, it has to end.

Spectacular. I am probably going to have to listen to this one twice.Some points of order, though: Canada is one of America’s largest trading partners. Trust me – if we “went away” – you guys in America would notice the same way any business would if they lost one of their major key clients. You Yanks would undoubtedly fare much better than we would… but if we go back to the Dirty 30’s, a LOT of you Yanks will go with us. The same danger confronts yourselves and Europe as well.The problem is that unlike Trump – most people are not business people. Trump doesn’t want to impoverish Canada. He wants a trade partner. Business partners thrive when they team up, care about each other’s welfare and act as a team rather than rivals. They play to each other’s strengths and cover for their weaknesses. This is how adult parnterships work and succeed.Canada’s (and Europe’s and Mexico’s) union slobs, welfare slobs, socialists and communists don’t understand this or reject it outright. To them, economics, culture, life itself – is a zero sum game. If somebody wins, somebody else HAS to lose… and by God, THEY will NOT be the losers!!! This mindset fosters selfishness, contempt and adversarial relationships in everything they do. They typically never run successful businesses, and most of them can’t even hold their own personal relationships and families together. Many Yanks don’t realize that a large minority of Canadians hate America and have a severe inferiority complex when it comes to our relations. That is why our clowns are all huffing and puffing and bragging about reading Trump the riot act and end up looking foolish when they try to intimidate him. Fat Doug Ford from Morontario is probably in Trump’s office getting strapped as we speak! 🙂The world IS changing. To thrive in it, we are both going to have to forge some kind of working partnerships that benefit both of us. THAT is what Trump wants. Unfortunately in the west, he has no one to talk to or deal with. Justin Trudeau is an entitled, arrogant sparkled socked fairy and a product of the Cloud People. The menopausal cat ladies and girl bosses of Europe don’t need no man and they are strong and powerful and independent enough to go it alone. One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at Macrone and Starmer as they threatened to take on Russia by themselves. They are headed toward the trash can of history… and the only way around that is that if the sanity starting to break out in the USA – spreads.I personally don’t think it’s going to happen. The people here in Canada, and those involved abroad are too stupid, to arrogant, and too lazy to pick up the life line that America has.But whadda I know?

I heard the Admin didn’t want the extra sideshow of a shutdown and all the hysterical theatrics that would ensue. Too bad, as every shutdown results in people realizing most of the government is a big Jobs Program. (Maybe he could have kept the parks going somehow, just to make the medicine go down better.). And, bring on the theatrics, as it only reminds people why they voted for Trump to begin with.

The current survey, that came out today, is that we have 53 million foreign born people in the USA which is an increase of 8.3 million since 2020. That is almost as many people as live in Virginia.Needless to say, we can’t have a functioning America First economy under any set of policies until the vast majority of these people are gone. Luckily for anyone who does want to get rid of these people, the vast majority of them have no loyalty to the USA and just see it as an economic zone and looting source like a World of Warcraft dungeon. I don’t even think most of them like it here and they certainly don’t like us. Make it so they can’t make huge amounts of money (relatively) and they will go home.

I agree that Trumps grand plan is necessary but we are starting to see the whores in Congress are working behind the scenes to dilute, modify and block the really transformative stuff. Trump will hit a wall by summer where the impact of EOs dissipates and he switches to fighting the swamp for every inch of progress. The GOP of course will stab Trump in the back like last time. Im thinking the best Trump can do is to crash the stock and real estate markets then withhold the inevitable trillions in bailouts. Sir John Glubb was right !https://notesfromthepast.substack.com/p/the-disintegration-of-civilizations

Rough week. Full of stepping on rakes, as Zman put it.He can probably work the kinks out of 2 booboos (Massie and the 1A case at Columbia).But the 3rd booboo has the potential to do him in if he buys that stinking war and makes it his own. The Europeans (esp UK) are doing their damndest to rope him in. Don’t do it Donald!The European blob wants nothing more than saving their own useless eater seats at the trough, just as our blob does here, and they’ve joined forces. Also, taking Trump down is of utmost urgency to discourage all the nascent populist movements/ leaders arising from the trashheap of failed professional managerialism.In other words, Trump is actually fighting for his life (and family) and he absolutely must prevail with ending this war. It’s his one chance to deliver a significant body blow to both both Blobdoms.Realistically, he only has this first term to accomplish everything. You can be sure the impeachment papers for year 3 are already being hatched.

My understanding is that Trump didn’t want to waste his, only requires 51 Senators, once a year budget reconciliation on this continuing resolution. He wanted to keep his powder dry for a real budget in the Fall.

Trump is attempting to do more than reorganize the US economy, he’s trying to remake the global trade and finance system. What I can’t figure out is how he’s going to deal with the dollar.People argue that the global trade system is out of balance because the US runs a huge trade deficit, but that’s not true. Our chief export is the dollar. It’s a commodity, indeed, a desperately needed commodity used for trade, debt servicing and collateral. If the US reduces its trade deficit, it will reduce its export of dollars, which will cause all kinds of trouble, not least of which is the dollar will skyrocket relative to other currencies, which will completely counter-act the tariffs.Trump and his Treasury Secretary Bessent seem to be cooking up some type of Plaza Accord or Bretton Woods to deal with this problem. That would be huge.

The outsourcing of production and the insourcing of cheap labor was a bonanza for the economic elite and they know it. Some of them have seen that the system is unsustainable and support Trump but most have not, as evidenced by the large advantage Harris had in campaign contributions from billionaires. Wall Street reflects the interests of the billionaire class and had the vapors as soon as Trump announced his tariff policy. It is a threat to their gravy train and they will go out to defeat Trump’s attempts to return production to the USA and deport the cheap laborers. Their money has a powerful influence on both parties in Congress, so Trump must be resolute to succeed.

Paul Craig Roberts points out that tariffs are a tax on consumption rather than a tax on labor or capital, which is sound policy from an economic point of view. Conventional economists are too tied to the “free trade” ideology to recognize this. Trump’s political success will be tied to the success of his economic policy, which is always the main motivation for voters. Trump’s critics on the right have pointed out that part of the reason for his 2020 loss (besides the fraud) was that his economic policy did not deliver enough benefit to the working class to motivate them to support him as strongly as they did in 2016.

Also, when the 200% tariffs get slapped on French wines, he expects the Canadians to resort to smuggling their Mother Country’s goods across our northern border to escape the duties. I think this explains his initial focus in interdicting fentanyl. The narcotic is a convenient proxy for any controlled substance, be it French brie or Chinese meth.

You have to take the poem too!!US must return Statue of Liberty to France – MEP https://www.rt.com/news/614326-us-statue-of-liberty-france/

That’s really stupid. The CR prevents Trump from making necessary changes because it codifies BIDEN’s budget. This was Massie’s argument all along. You’re a fucking retard who doesn’t read, and Trump is still stupid about how politics actually works.

OT: trump should move the palis to yemen. seems like a win-win for almost everyone :P. don’t announce it, just start bussing them in

If it’s up to the GOP Congress, the $1 trillion will go to tax cuts and increased military spending.

I was thinking the other day – what happens when the left gains the self confidence to when asked why they called you a racist say “because i said so” and “it’s not up for you to decide”. What happens when trials in democratic party jurisdictions are basically like “this guy is a fascist, therefore he’s guilty, regardless of any facts”

I disagree. This is the real problem that Team Trump must tackle:https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252960

Did you hear the Simpson in Simpson mazzoli bill died? Hopefully he had some regrets about that